Day in photos: April 24, 2013

Chicago’s Bryan Bickell flattens the face of Vancouver’s Henrik Sedin during the third period of what would turn into 3-1 Canucks win, clinching the Northwest division for the canadian squad at the expense of the top team in the West.

Reuters

Who needs a roof? Villagers enjoy a dinner amid the wreckage of what remains of their Lushan county, China, home.

AP

Huge metal beams provide a slide for Filipino children in Manila.

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A National Park Service employee pressure cleans the stone figures of the Christopher Columbus Memorial Fountain in front of Union Station in Washington DC.

UPI

A blood-covered man rushes through a hospital corridor carrying a child injured in a car bomb in Quetta, Pakistan. The blast — aimed at a Pakistani Shiite politician — missed its target but killed several others.

AP

Romanians wait for a chance to get their hands on the free books spread in a square during an event marking World Book and Copyright Day in Bucharest.

AP

Guards carry the coffin of one of four British soldiers laid to rest — with full military honors — at the Honourable Artillery Company Cemetery at Ecoust-Saint-Mein, France, nearly a century after being killed in World War I. The four were found a by a farmer clearing his fields in 2009.

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An AmeriCorps member monitoring pumps walks atop a sandbag levee set up beside the Mississippi in Clarksville, Mo. Midwestern communities are being told to brace for even more flooding with new storms looming.

AP

A sign simply reading “thanks” is held up over the crowd gathered in Paris to celebrate the passage of a new French law allowing same-sex couples to marry and adopt children.

Reuters

An Iraqi army vehicle lays burning in the road near the site of a massive protest in Ramadi. Protesters threw stones at a convoy and flipped an army Humvee, lighting it on fire after the solders fled.

AP

Workers scale the sides of the Louvre’s pyramide in the continuing quest to keep the landmark clean and shiny (to say nothing of its recent pickpocket problems).

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David Ortiz welcomes Mike Napoli home after Napoli smashed a grand slam in the fifth against Oakland. It was enough to put the Red Sox out of reach on the way to a 9-6 win at Fenway Park.